You decide to examine call duration in Canadian toads at Big Lake near Edmonton. Call duration in the toads is determined by a single autosomal locus "noisy", at which there are two alleles (N & n). You observe three distinct call patterns in the toad population: Long duration, intermediate duration and short duration calls. Based on research from Dr. Phoney Balloni longer calling is dominant to short duration. On one evening at Big Lake you and your socially distanced ass tants record the phenotypes of the toads in the table below. Phenotype No. of individuals Long 123 Intermediate 226 Short 101 Determine whether the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. a) What are the frequencies of N and n?. b) What are the expected frequencies for each phenotype? c) Is the population is in HW equilibrium?
Genetic Variation
Genetic variation refers to the variation in the genome sequences between individual organisms of a species. Individual differences or population differences can both be referred to as genetic variations. It is primarily caused by mutation, but other factors such as genetic drift and sexual reproduction also play a major role.
Quantitative Genetics
Quantitative genetics is the part of genetics that deals with the continuous trait, where the expression of various genes influences the phenotypes. Thus genes are expressed together to produce a trait with continuous variability. This is unlike the classical traits or qualitative traits, where each trait is controlled by the expression of a single or very few genes to produce a discontinuous variation.


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